Geza Vermes
HIS life, he said, had been a series of “providential accidents”. The biggest of these was escaping the Holocaust. The Vermes family, assimilated ...
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Gay marriage row ‘will strengthen Kirk’
THE debate over gay ministers will strengthen the Church of Scotland a leading advocate of the move has insisted, following criticism from the Free ...
Gush Halav: Home to the Maronites
Despite 14 centuries of persecution, these Galilee-based Christian followers of a hermit named Mar Maroun have refused to abandon their faith.
Christian teacher to be tried in Egypt for insulting Islam
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's prosecutors on Tuesday referred a Christian schoolteacher to trial on charges of insulting Islam, judicial sources said.
Are Stories of Historical Christian Martyrdom ‘Exaggerated, Invented and Forged’? Professor …
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part interview series about Christian martyrdom. Dr. Candida Moss, a professor at the University of Notre ...
Elizabeth Tenety: With sainthood for martyrs, Pope Francis and Catholics confront engagement with Islam
In the first few weeks of his reign, Pope Francis wasted no time embedding himself in the middle of some of the biggest challenges to the church ...
The Church of Scotland scandal
Earlier this month, the Church of Scotland issued a report titled “The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘Promised Land.’” ...
In the Image of God: Sex, Power, and ‘Masculine Christianity’
Most of us are too familiar with this story: an Upper Midwestern Baptist minister claims that “God made Christianity to have a masculine feel [and] ...
Recap of Recent Piper Messages
We have never known days like these at Desiring God. John Piper is now on staff full-time at DG and has begun a more unfettered ministry to the wider ...
Candida Moss Debunks The ‘Myth' Of Christian Persecution
(RNS) Growing up Catholic in England, Candida Moss felt secure in life, yet was told in church that Christians have been persecuted since the dawn of ...